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Various objects are needed to conduct a tea ceremony with decorum, the most important among them being ceramics. The book, originally published in Japanese, examines these. It is arranged in three parts, and looks first at ceramics made in Vietnam from pre-Christian days until the sixteenth century, and then Chinese porcelain and stoneware of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Barbara Harrisson provides an introduction which places the collection as a whole in perspective.